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Residents in the GWU Neurosurgery residency program are actively involved in all the departmental research. In addition to ongoing clinical research projects in the department at GWU, residents have the opportunity to take advantage of the many multidisciplinary basic science research projects at GWU. For more information on the type of research that occurs in this department, click here. You can also see a list of recent publications which residents authored below.

The rotation of GWU Neurosurgery residents at NIH further strenghtens the research training received during the time spent at GWU. Under the direction of Dr. Ed Oldfield, residents are exposed to cutting-edge research in the largest medical research institution in the world. Medicine at the NIH is practiced with patient care and medical research side-by-side, so that gains made in the laboratory are readily applied to patient care. This type of environment is not available anywhere else, and is a valuable part of the training experience at GWU.

Below is a listing of resident publications during the past 5 years:

  • Wind,JJ. “A medical student’s changing perspective of health,” Stauros Notebook, 23(2)4-5, 2004.
  • Anderson DE, Leonetti JP, Wind,JJ, Cribari D, Fahey K. “Resection of large vestibular schwannomas: facial nerve preservation in the context of surgical approach and patient-assessed outcome,” J. Neurosurgery 102(4)643-649, 2005.
  • Wind,JJ, Papp L, Happel M, Hahn K, Andriole EJ, Poutsma JC. “Proton affinity of ß-oxalylaminoalanine (BOAA): incorporation of direct entropy correction into the single-reference kinetic method,” J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 16(7)1151-1161, 2005.
  • Schroeder OE, Carper E, WindJJ, Poutsma JL, Etzkorn FA, Poutsma JC. “Theoretical and experimental investigation of the energetics of cis-trans proline isomerization in peptide models,” J. Phys. Chem. A., 110(20)6522-6530, 2006.
  • Wind,JJ, Anderson DE, Leonetti JP, Herr BD, Raffin MJM. “Hearing preservation in surgical resection of acoustic tumors: patterns of hearing preservation and patient-assessed hearing function,” J. Neurosurgery, in revision.
  • Wind,JJ, Anderson DE. “From Prefrontal Leukotomy to Deep Brain Stimulation: The Historical Transformation of Psychosurgery and the Emergence of Neuroethics,” Neurosurgical Focus, in press.
  • Kerr,PB,AJ, Horwitz NH. A History of brain tumor localization. Neurosurgical Focus,18 (4) 1-3, April 2004.
  • Ammerman, J, Kerr,PB, Caputy AJ. A novel technique for the intraoperative monitoring of detrusor activity in intradural lesions of the cauda equina: technical note. Surgical Neurology, 68 (3), 269-271, September 2007.
  • Szerlip NJ, Lonser RR, Kerr, PB, et al. Real-time imaging of convection-enhanced delivery of viruses and virus-sized particles. J Neurosurg, 107 (3), 560-567, September 2007. (contributing author)
  • Kurtom K, Magram G: Siphon regulatory devices: their role in the treatment of hydrocephalus. Neurosurg Focus. 2007 Apr 15;22(4):E5
  • Kurtom,K, Nieman L, Oldfield EH: Diabetes insipidus: diagnosis and management in patients post transsphenoidal surgery – abstract accepted for upcoming CNS meeting Florida in September.
  • Ammerman, JM, Ammerman, BJ and Caputy, AJ, Intraoperative Video Monitoring with MicroLux Camera System. Neurosurgery. 52(2): 479-480, 2003.
  • Ammerman, JM, Caputy, AJ, and Potolicchio, SJ. Endovascular ablation of a temporal lobe epileptogenic focus – a complication of Wada Testing. Acta Neurol Scand, 112 (3): 189-91, 2005.
  • Lonser, RR, Vortmeyer AO, Butman JA, Glasker S, Finn MA, Ammerman, JM, Merrill MJ, Edwards NA, Zhuang Z, Oldfield E. Edema is a precursor to central nervous system peritumoral cyst formation. Ann Neurol, 58 (3): 392-399, 2005.
  • Ammerman JM, Lonser, RR and Oldfield, EH. Posterior subtemporal transtentorial approach to intraparenchymal lesions of the anteromedial region of the superior cerebellum. J. Neurosurgery, 103 (5): 783-788, 2005.
  • Lonser RR, Ammerman, JM, and Oldfield EH. Subtemporal Transtentorial approach. Journal Neurosurgery, 104 (5): 854-856: Comment 855-856, 2006.
  • Ammerman JM, Goel R and Polis RS. Resolution of Chiari malformation after treatment of acromegaly. Case Illiustration. J. Neurosurgery 104 (6): 980, 2006.
  • Ammerman JM, Lonser RR, Dambrosia J, Butman JA and Oldfield EH. Long-term natural history of hemangioblastomas in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease. Implications for treatment. J Neurosurgery 105(2), 248-255, 2006.
  • Ammerman JM, Baggenstos M, Jones, RV, Sweet J, Goldstein K and Caputy AJ. Multiple metachronous brain metastases from primary ureteral carcinoma. Urology 68 (3): 673 (e9-e12), 2006.
  • Ammerman JM, Lonser RR, Dambrosia J. Butman JA, Oldfield, EH. Foundation Award: Long term natural history of hemangioblastoma in von Hippel-Lindau disease: implications for treatment. Clincical Neurosurgery, 53:324-31, 2006.
  • Ammerman JM, Ammerman, MD, and Magram G. Subarachnoid air mimicking a basilar apex aneurysm. J Neurosurg (**3 Suppl Pediatrics). 106 (3): 244, 2007.
  • Butman JA, Kim HJ, Baggenstos M, Ammerman JM, Dambrosia J, Patsalides A., Patronas NJ, Oldfield, EH, Lonser RR. Mechanisms of morbid hearing loss associated with tumors of the endolymphatic sac in von Hippel-Lindau disease. JAMA, 298 (1): 41-48, 2007.
  • Ammerman JM, Kerr PB, Jarrell ST, Caputy AJ. A novel technique for the intraoperative monitoring of detrusor activity in intradural lesions of the cauda equina. Technical note. Surg Neurology 68 (3): 269-71, 2007.
  • Ammerman JM, Ammerman MD, Leiphart JW. Traumataic Bilateral Thoracic Facet Dislocation without Fracture. J Am Coll Surg, 206 (1): 186-187, 2008.
  • Polin, RS, Ammerman, JM, Nanda A. “Severe Head Injury” Neurobase CD-ROM Textbook, R. Evans, ed., 2003.
  • Polin, RS, Ammerman, JM, Nanda A. “Severe Head Injury” Neurobase CD-ROM Tescbook, R.Evans, ed., 2004.
  • Polin RS, Ammerman, JM, Nanda A. “ Severe Head Injury” Neurobase CD-ROM Textbook, R. Evans, ed, 2005.
  • Ammerman, JM, Jarrell ST and Polin RS (2006) Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage. In Evans R (ed): Neurology and Trauma, 2nd ed. .Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, pp. 156-166.
  • Jarrell ST, Chenelle A., Ammerman, JM and Polin RS. (2006) Athletic Head Injury. In Evans R. (ed): Neurology lanld Trauma, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, pp. 506-525.
  • Ammerman JM and Caputy AJ., (2006) Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Discectomy. In Schmedick and Robers (ed): Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, Methods and Results, 5th ed. Schmedick HH and Sweet WB, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, pp. 1981-1990.
  • Scanlong JM, Ammerman JM and Trask A. (2006) Head injury. In Irwing and Rippe. (ed): Manual of Intensive Care Medicine, 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, pp. 693-696.
  • J.Ammerman, M.D, M.Baggenstos, M.D., R. Jones MD, J.Sweet, M.D., K Goldstein MD., A. Caputy MD. “Multiple metachronous brain metastases from primary ureteral carcinoma.” Urology 2006 Sept. 15, Volume 68, Issue 3, Pages 673.e9-63.e12
  • Martin Baggenstos, M.D., John A. Butman, M.D., Ph.D., Edward H. Oldfield, M.D., Russell R. Lonser, M.D. “The role of edema in peritumoral cyst formation.” Neurosurg Focus 22 (5):E9, 2007
  • Russell R. Lonser, M.D., Martin Baggenstos, M.D.., H. Jeffrey Kim, M.D., John A. Butman, M.D., Ph.D., Alexander O. Vortmeyer, M.D. “The vestibular aqueduct is the site of origin for endolymphatic sac tumors.” J Neurosurg. 2008 Apr;108(4):751-756
  • Khalid MH, Shibata S, Furukawa K, Nadel A, Ammerman, MD, Caputy AJ. Role of estrogen receptor-related antigen in initiating the growth of human glioma cells. J Neurosurg. 2004 May;100(5):923-30.
  • Richard S. Polin,, Nicholas F. Marko, Matthew D. Ammerman, Mark E. Shaffrey, Wei Huang, Frederick A. Anderson Jr, Anthony J. Caputy, and Edward Laws. Functional outcome and survival in patients with high-grade gliomas in dominant and non-dominant hemispheres. J Neurosurg 2005 Feb:102(2):276-83.
  • Ammerman, JD, Ammerman, MD, Dambrosia J, Ammerman BJ. A prospective evaluation of the role of intraoperative x-ray in lumbar discectomy. Predictors of the incorrect level exposure. Surg Neurol 2006 Nov:66(5):470-474..
  • Ammerman JM, Ammerman, MD, Magram G. Subaracnoid air mimicking a basilar apex aneurysm. Case illustration. J Neurosurg Peds 2007 Mar:106(3) 244.
  • Ammerman JM, Ammerman, MD, Leiphart JW. Traumatic bilateral thoracic facet dislocation without fracture. J American College of Surgeons 2008 Jan: 206(1) pp186-87.
  • Roberti F, Lee HH, Caputy AJ, Katz B: Shave optic nerve biopsy in isolated neurosarcoidosis. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2004
  • P.B. Kerr, Oldfield EH. Sublabial-transnasal transsphenoidal approach to the sella turcica: a technical note. (accepted J Neurosurg, July 2008)
  • Sweet J, Kalhorn C: Spinal Dyspraphism. Seminars in Spine Surgery, in Wiesel SW, Boden SD (ed). New York, Elsevier Science, Inc., 2004, chapter 5.
  • Matthew Ammerman, M.D., Martin Baggenstos, M.D.Richard Polin, MD, “Back Pain.” Medlink Neurology:www.medlink.com.2006
  • Jarrell, SJ, Vortmeyer AO, Linehan WM, Oldfield EH, Lonser RR. Metastases to hemangioblastoma in von Hippel-Lindau disease. J.Neurosurgery 105 (2): 256-263 (2006)
  • Szerlip JN, Walbridge S, Yang L, Morrison PF, Degan JW, Jarrell ST, Kouri J, Kerr, PB, Kotin R, Oldfield EH, Lonser RR. Realtime imaging of convection-enhanced delivery of viruses and virus-sized particles. J Neurosurgery 107 (3): 560-567 (2007)
  • Roberti F., Magram G: Fiberscopic fenestration and prophylactic stenting of periaqueductal cysts. Technical report on three cases. Minimally Invasive Neurosurg. 2005 Aug;48(4):202-6.
  • Roberti F, Lee HH, Caputy AJ, Katz B: "Shave" biopsy of the optic nerve in isolated neurosarcoidosis. J Neurosurg Sci. 2005 Jun;49(2):59-60.Mortini P, Roberti F, Kalavakonda C, Nadel A, Sekhar LN: Endoscopic and microscopic extended subfrontal approach to the clivus: A comparative study. Skull Base 2003 Aug;13(3):139-147
  • Roberti F., Acevedo C, Sekhar LN: Torcular and peritorcular meningiomas. In: Atlas of Neurosurgical techniques: Brain. LN. Sekhar and R. Fessler (eds). Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 2006
  • Roberti F., Sekhar LN: Subtemporal preauricular infratemporal approach In: Chordomas and chondrosarcomas. G. Harsh IV, I. Janeka, H. Mankin, R. Ojemann, H. Suit, M. McKenna (eds). Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, 2003

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